Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
On Submission of Prohibition.
PERsIMMoN RIDGE, Iron County,
No., January Esd, 1887.

PERsIMMoN RIDGE, Iron County,
NO., January ed, 1887.
Ed. Regester-If you will allow me space
L would like to say a few words IN advocating
your views on submission. As you said in
your last issue, "Now Is not the time for this
question to be submitted" First, because in
1883 our country, from the pineries of Maine
to the everglades of Florida and from the
sandy beach of the Atlantic TO the golden
shores of the Pacific, will be agitated over
the most closely contested political struggle
ever experienced. Now the writer is of the
opinion that this coming struggle will decide
as to which of our two great parties will be
in the ascendancy. This being the case, are
we to suppose that our Democratic legisla-
tors are to rush forward to get our people
divided on two or three outside question and
place us in danger of losing our sixteen eec-
ioral votes? Every advocate of the true
principles of Jeffersonian Democracy will
our party lines are likely to be broken, and
when hundreds of petitions are received
from various parts of the state requesting
the legislature to postpone this question,
there must be time for reflection before ac-
ton is taken. Perhaps some one will say
that the COZ pOpuli demands immediate ac-
ton on this question; but when we take into
consideration the foregoing thoughts and
also the fact, there are at present about as
many petitions on fill at Jefferson City op-
posing submission as there are in favor of it,
what grounds then have we (as Democrats)
to confemn our legislature. Last week
L. L
the Texas Legislature, recommended to that
honorable body that they take immediate
action and submit the prohibitory amend
nent to the people. This is exactly right;
for when the number of petitioners advocat-
ing submission is far in excess of the number
opposing it, also when the dominant party
is so overwhelmingly in the majority in the
state, what Democrat could seriously object.
Affairs in Missouri, as is shown above, are
not shaped like they are in the ''Lone Star
State''-hence we offer our objections. While
am bitter enemy to Prohibition, 1 am
temperance advocate and strongly in favor
of submission, when it is to be properly con-
sidered. Keep these out of politics and out
of general elections, and let them be voted
upon when the people are ready and at a
special election. / am informed that the
democratic County Ticket' in Southeast
Missouri county was defeated at the recent
election on account of allowing submission
to enter politics. Again, there is nothing
pressing, as our present law is so framed
that every county and town can crush out
dramshops, if the majority of the people so
desire. There is yet plenty of time for this
question to be submitted to the people of
Missouri. Remember that Rome was not
built in day.
Now, in the second place, when our law
makers have only seventy days latter that
time the compensation will not pay eNpens
esq for the transaction of all business to be
brought up during the present session, we
cannot expect them to drop the more i'm
portant matters and take up submission.
The railroad laws are to be amended so as
to protect all alike; also the militia laws, in
regard to strikes, when business and trans
portation are suspended throughout the
state. Educational aud eleemosynary insti-
tutions must be looked after, and all appro-
priatlons bills must receive their undivided
attention.
1t is probable that the next session of our
leg stature will have less business to transact,
hence this subject can then he taken up ana
considered from the standpoint, that it will
notseater politics, but at the proper time be
submitted TO the people. Respectfully,
JAYHAWKER.